Underzog
Posted on 07/30/2016 8:49:28 AM PDT by OddLane
A brilliant exposition of what's wrong with our society by one of my favorite modern philosophers.
Adam Carolla also has a great take on this subject.
>>As bubble-gummy as the Beach Boys were, at least they could manage some pretty tight harmonies
How bubble-gummy was it when the Manson Family was staying at Dennis Wilson’s house?
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Beach+Boy%27s+manson+family
The Beach Boys are a good example of the phony nature of Pop Music.
Observe the facts regarding who actually played their, and many other, albums produced in that era:
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Beach+Boy%27s+Wrecking+Crew
The pop music of the 30s and the 40s was the best.
One of the best parts of Boardwalk Empire-one of my favorite television dramas-was its soundtrack.
Something worse than pop music: CNN on in all airports!
Two things I’d like to add:
One, if one plays an instrument, he (or she) will find his singing voice much improved. My experience.
Two, the idea of having a musical instrument in the household is an old-fashioned but good one. The family should be in the habit of making music together. I think John Senior in one of his books on the demise of Christian culture said the parlor piano should be brought back as a regular item of household furniture.
>>It is a manufactured product. Its sole purpose is to have monetary value, not artistic value.
The worship music bidness model seems to be about the worship of the recording/artist/instruments/technology V.s. the process of creating music collaboratively in the body of Christ.
Lately I’ve been thinking a bit about how the process of creating music, in the moment, fits with the concept of Samsara - and the endless cycle of rebirth.
Recordings might pay the artists bills - but Jazz is not the recorded end product.
Great insight.
They had to coin a name for movie performers, so Time magazine, which was new to the world itself, called them cinemactors. It didn’t take.
Thanks. I try to make this point every time the topic comes up. Liberal people tend to gravitate towards these occupations. When they had no power they were generally harmless, but since technology has given this class of people great power, it has now become a threat to our society.
There is a reason we used to "regulate" them. They simply can't help themselves when it comes to misusing their power.
I didn’t watch the video but I know this - studies have shown that if a store plays “pop” or more often plain ‘ole rock and roll, customers leave sooner whereas if classical music is played, customers tend to linger. It’s not a secret. Why stores don’t play Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven is beyond me.
The epitome of such lovely music in a store was the live grand pianos they used to have in Nordstrom that made Nordstrom more of a destination. People would come, sit, and linger. It made you want to stay there. Get a cup of coffee, Maybe stay for lunch at the Cafe Express. It was wonderful. Then some hotshot exec who took over for the Nordstrom brothers decided he knew better and out went the beautiful grand pianos and the beautiful music. Stupid.
Nordstrom should consider hiring you, seriously.
If Pop music is the problem, then Obama would be telling us we couldn't call it Pop music.....OTOH, I haven't heard him or Hillary use those two words together...hmmmmmm
Some marketing genius decided that it would be preferable to pipe in pre-fab pop dreck instead of allowing its customers to listen to classical music.
The sad part is that most people cannot disassociate the actor from their characters. People do not know the person, only the persona whom they portray. The glaring difference between the moral characters and the libertine actors is only exacerbated by the fact that their art lies in deception.
What is enjoyable for entertainment purposes is vile in excess. Suspension of disbelief was never intended to become a lifestyle. Today, it has progressed to a complete inability to understand the difference between fantasy and reality.
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